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...Mammoth Upset...

Author: By Miliann Kang, | Title: Somerville Recounts Albano Ballots | 11/27/1984 | See Source »

...surprise, since the government had made it clear that it considered failure to vote a counterrevolutionary stance. In the days prior to the election, members of Nicaragua's neighborhood Sandinista Defense Committees carried that message door to door. Presidential Candidate Ortega stressed the same theme at a mammoth windup campaign rally in Managua, the capital, three days before the balloting. As some 300,000 people filled the huge, newly constructed Plaza of the Heroes and Martyrs on the shore of Lake Managua, Ortega declared, "All Nicaraguans who are Nicaraguans are going to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: First Trip to the Polls | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...museum contains exhibits on landmark machines such as the UNIVAC, the first American commercial computer, and the largest computer ever built, a 175-ton mammoth used in the U.S. Air Force air defense system...

Author: By Kai Carver, | Title: Not Just Your Basic Museum | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

Crimson running backs Mike Granger and Steve Ernst, taking turns running behind a mammoth Harvard offensive line, marched the ball to the Penn...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: After Two, It's Still 10-0 | 11/7/1984 | See Source »

While upsets tend to astound every season, few upstarts in the past have shown the flair of modest Syracuse, which was shut out by both Rutgers and Florida but shut down mammoth Nebraska in between. Also familiar is the critical call missed by the harried field judge, yet how often are apologies telephoned to the slighted coach? Two days after being tied by Texas, Oklahoma's Barry Switzer heard last week from the supervisor of officials that, as a matter of fact, there had been an interception in the end zone on the play prior to the Longhorns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Huddling or Muddling? | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

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